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ZZZZ · 09-06-2011

Right. First impressions. A moderately challenging little game, with no serious bugs that I could find. Very nice sequence work on the death animations, and given how many of them there are, that's quite a bit of very good sprite work. Well done. There were a few minor flaws, though. A quit level button would have been nice, and since the deaths and game over screen are half the fun, a suicide button would've been nice too. Given that you were going for an extremely easy game, there's some minor issues with difficulty, stemming from the fact that kim loses all upward momentum when she hits a platform above her, which significantly reduces how far you can jump. Whenever there's a platform preventing kim reaching her full height you can jump, easy jumps become tricky ones and tricky ones become very difficult. Still, this doesn't really become much of an issue except in the first Jungle stage and a few of the fun-house stages. There, things became somewhat frustrating.

On the first jungle stage, when you jump between branches you tend to hit a branch above you. It's still possible to make the jump, but it becomes impossible to effectively aim your landings- you only just make it to the other branch. This turns the stages challenge from "aim your jumps to avoid the bananas" to "wait until the path's clear and hope you're not beaned with a banana in the process"

The funhouse stages often split your attention, screw with the interface, or use some other gimmick to turn an otherwise effortless set of jumps into tricky ones. Still, the only stage where this becomes a problem is stage 2, which throws a bunch of low-clearance jumps at you while messing with the screen. Between the two, missing a jump is easy, and given that you're trying to outrun a wave of peanuts, missing a jump means death with no chance to recover. Still, aside from those few problem stages, it's not hard at all.

You've made a brilliant game, I applaud you.

Edit: Just found a small bug. If you make the game full screen, there's no way to shrink it again without quitting.

09-06-2011	#2
ZZZZ Process Fan Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 51	Re: [Platformer] Trial of the Imps Right. First impressions. A moderately challenging little game, with no serious bugs that I could find. Very nice sequence work on the death animations, and given how many of them there are, that's quite a bit of very good sprite work. Well done. There were a few minor flaws, though. A quit level button would have been nice, and since the deaths and game over screen are half the fun, a suicide button would've been nice too. Given that you were going for an extremely easy game, there's some minor issues with difficulty, stemming from the fact that kim loses all upward momentum when she hits a platform above her, which significantly reduces how far you can jump. Whenever there's a platform preventing kim reaching her full height you can jump, easy jumps become tricky ones and tricky ones become very difficult. Still, this doesn't really become much of an issue except in the first Jungle stage and a few of the fun-house stages. There, things became somewhat frustrating. On the first jungle stage, when you jump between branches you tend to hit a branch above you. It's still possible to make the jump, but it becomes impossible to effectively aim your landings- you only just make it to the other branch. This turns the stages challenge from "aim your jumps to avoid the bananas" to "wait until the path's clear and hope you're not beaned with a banana in the process" The funhouse stages often split your attention, screw with the interface, or use some other gimmick to turn an otherwise effortless set of jumps into tricky ones. Still, the only stage where this becomes a problem is stage 2, which throws a bunch of low-clearance jumps at you while messing with the screen. Between the two, missing a jump is easy, and given that you're trying to outrun a wave of peanuts, missing a jump means death with no chance to recover. Still, aside from those few problem stages, it's not hard at all. You've made a brilliant game, I applaud you. Edit: Just found a small bug. If you make the game full screen, there's no way to shrink it again without quitting. Last edited by ZZZZ; 09-06-2011 at 03:59 PM.